These 68 activities are worth leaving the house for.
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October 22 at 5:30pm
Michigan Theater · Old Fourth Ward • Free
What happens when music meets machine learning? Holly Herndon, the Berlin-based artist behind AI consent protocol Spawning, unpacks her boundary-pushing work in this free talk at the historic Michigan Theater.
October 23 at 6pm
Ann Arbor District Library: Downtown · Old Fourth Ward
What was it like growing up with parents in the Weather Underground? Zayd Ayers Dohrn reads from his memoir of radicalism, family secrets, and fallout, in conversation with novelist Rachel DeWoskin.
November 1 at 4pm (Next weekend)
Ann Arbor District Library: Downtown · Old Fourth Ward
Five Asian Americans who ditched medicine, law, and engineering for art, writing, and entrepreneurship get real about it. Expect sharp humor and honest talk on family pressure, financial fear, and life outside the model minority mold.
November 6 at 8pm
Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor · Old Fourth Ward • Free
Gaze at the cosmos through a working 1857 telescope, one of the oldest in North America. Free Friday nights at the Detroit Observatory, with the historic building open to explore rain or shine.
November 12 at 6pm
Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor · Old Fourth Ward • Free
How did college sports end up in chaos? U-M lecturer and MVictors founder Greg Dooley traces the NCAA from its 1906 birth to its modern collapse, with plenty for Wolverines fans. Free, with refreshments.
November 12 at 6:30pm
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library · Northside • Free
Hear it straight from the women who lived it. Kathleen Kornahrens and Colonel Gail Colvin (Ret.) were in the Air Force Academy's first class of women, and they're marking 50 years since Ford's signature opened the academy doors.
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Wed, Oct 21 · 7:15 PM
Hill Auditorium · Burns Park
Free
Thu, Oct 22 · 11:00 AM
Ann Arbor District Library: Westgate Branch · Lakewood
Thu, Oct 22 · 11:00 AM
Ann Arbor District Library: Pittsfield Branch · Lawton
Thu, Oct 22 · 1:00 AM
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor
Free
Thu, Oct 22 · 9:00 AM
Harvest Market · Bryant Pattengill West
Free
Thu, Oct 22 · 2:00 PM
Ann Arbor District Library: Traverwood Branch · Logan
Thu, Oct 22 · 11:00 AM
Ann Arbor District Library: Pittsfield Branch · Dicken
Free
Thu, Oct 22 · 11:00 AM
Ann Arbor District Library: Downtown · Ann Arbor
Thu, Oct 22 · 11:00 AM
Ann Arbor District Library: Traverwood Branch · Logan
Thu, Oct 22 · 8:45 AM
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library · Northside
Free
Fri, Oct 23 · 6:00 PM
Liberty Research Annex, Taubman College, University of Michigan · Old Fourth Ward
Fri, Oct 23 · 10:30 AM
Ann Arbor District Library: Downtown · Ann Arbor
Free
Tue, Oct 27 · 11:00 AM
Ann Arbor District Library: Malletts Creek Branch · Bryant Pattengill East
Free
Tue, Oct 27 · 11:00 AM
Ann Arbor District Library: Downtown · Ann Arbor
Free
Tue, Oct 27 · 11:00 AM
Ann Arbor District Library: Malletts Creek Branch · Bryant Pattengill East
Tue, Oct 27 · 6:00 PM
Zingerman's Roadhouse · Lakewood
$45
Tue, Oct 27 · 11:00 AM
Ann Arbor District Library: Downtown · Ann Arbor
Free
Wed, Oct 28 · 8:30 AM
Bamboo Ann Arbor · Old West Side
Free
Wed, Oct 28 · 6:00 PM
Nest and Nurture · Water Hill
Wed, Oct 28 · 8:30 AM
Morris Lawrence Building (ML) · Burns Park
$99
Wed, Oct 28 · 8:30 AM
Bamboo Ann Arbor · Old Fourth Ward
Mon, Nov 2 · 2:00 PM
Ann Arbor District Library: Pittsfield Branch · Dicken
Fri, Nov 6 · 7:30 PM
University of Michigan Research Museums Center · Bryant Pattengill East
Mon, Nov 9 · 6:30 PM
Literati Bookstore · Old Fourth Ward
$5
Wed, Nov 11 · 6:30 PM
Ann Arbor District Library: Downtown · Old Fourth Ward
Wed, Nov 11 · 6:00 PM
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Treasures · Old Fourth Ward
Thu, Nov 12 · 1:00 PM
Biomedical Science Research Building · Angell
Mon, Nov 16 · 7:00 AM
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore · Old West Side
Fri, Nov 20 · 10:00 AM
Vinology Restaurant & Event Space · Old West Side
Free
Mon, Jan 25 · 4:00 PM
Pierpont Commons · Northside
Free
Mon, Jan 25 · 3:30 PM
Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor · Bryant Pattengill East
$240
Mon, Feb 1 · 4:00 PM
Pierpont Commons · Northside
Thu, Mar 11 · 2:00 PM
The Really Useful Information Company (TRUiC) · Bryant Pattengill West
Wed, Mar 17 · 8:45 AM
Daycroft School · Ann Arbor
Mon, Mar 22 · 1:30 PM
Duderstadt Center · Northside
Michigan Union · Ann Arbor
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy · Burns Park
Ann Arbor District Library: Downtown · Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor District Library: Downtown · Ann Arbor
Michigan Union · Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor District Library: Downtown · Ann Arbor
University of Michigan Museum of Art · Burns Park
Palmer Commons · Burns Park
Michigan Theater · Ann Arbor
Biological Sciences Building · Burns Park
Ann Arbor District Library: Downtown · Ann Arbor
Michigan Theater · Old Fourth Ward
Ann Arbor District Library: Downtown · Ann Arbor
Michigan Union · Ann Arbor
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy · Burns Park
Michigan Union · Ann Arbor
Willard Henry Dow Laboratory · Burns Park
Michigan Union · Ann Arbor
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